Rencontres d´Arles 2018
As in the summer of 2018, the international photography festival Rencontes d'Arles in Arles in the south of France will take place for over 40 years. I participated in the opening week in July. Despite the intense heat in the Provence, the festival is an Eldorado for photo art lovers and …
Great portraits by Vincent Peters in Berlin
The man has his own handwriting, seen photographically. Fashion and portrait shots by Vincent Peters are often recognizable at first glance. I have appreciated his work for a while. So I was especially pleased when I had the opportunity to …
Irving Penn Centennial
The exceptional photographer Irving Penn would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. The C/O Berlin Foundation shows the breadth of his work with a large retrospective with 240 exhibits. Last weekend I really enjoyed …
Paris in the light of two photo festivals
In November 2017, the annual photo art fairs "Paris Photo" and "fotofever" took place again. See me impressions …
Blue Moments in Hong Kong. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze in conversation with Thomas Berlin
I met Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze in November 2017 in Paris for an interview at the photo art fair "fotofever", where he was presented by …
Portraits and Fashion from Sibylle. My view of the current exhibition.
The magazine for fashion and culture "Sibylle" was a women's magazine founded in 1956 in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The exhibition in Opel Villen presents the Sibylle photographers with about 200 photographs.
Analogue or digital photography?
A confession before: Analogue photography I consider a step back and not really reasonable. But do you always have to be reasonable? Sometimes the fun should be in the foreground. And so we are in the case of analogue photography, which is currently attractive again for a small but growing minority …
Three photo festivals in Paris 2013
Since 1996 Paris has been the world capital of photography every November. Then the biggest European fair for photographic art takes place …